Sentence examples for distant before from inspiring English sources

He hoped to make it as far west as Edenton, some thirty highway miles distant, before attempting to cross Albemarle Sound.

Relations with his brother Michael – who was wanted by police when his mother was shot – were distant before the shooting and remained so afterwards during the family's campaign.

Like most museums dedicated to history, the Hoboken Historical Museum generally waits until a memorable event feels somewhat distant before inviting the public to revisit it.

In a passage that compares the "dim roar of London" to the "bourdon note of an organ," Wilde inserts the word "distant" before "organ," adding a twinge of far-off religious dread.

She can be warm and engaging in small settings but dull and distant before large crowds.

Mary tearfully attempts to explain her lack of intervention and years of abuse, but Precious remains distant; before she leaves, she tells her mother that she won't be seeing her again.

Patients who met any of the following criteria were also excluded: tumor located at a fissure and incorporating more than one lobe, the presence of distant metastasis before operation, neoadjuvant therapy before operation, previous or concurrent malignancy, or postoperative death within 1 month.

Impala can also be seen gracefully stalking the distant green before fading into the darkening forest.

Three of Savta's children had moved away to America, and we gathered that my grandfather, who died 13 years earlier, had grown distant long before that.

"This was Beirut," said Steven Zivkovic, the marketing director at Harry's Roadhouse, invoking an Asbury Park mantra to describe the distant era before his place opened.

We watched in awe as the sun sank behind distant fells, before receiving a quick reminder of this region's wild mood swings.